Week of January 21st
Hello Awbrey Park Staff,
I hope you all enjoyed your three day weekend and are ready for a quick day week with students.
Here is our calendar or the week:
Jan. 21 (M)
No School — Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Jan. 22 (T)
Artist in Residence Schedule begins with Jessica Z. Mendoza (Runs through February 28th)
3:00-4:00, TLT Meeting (Room 13)
9:00-11:30, Waggener’s Class to History Museum
Jan. 23 (W) Crazy Hair Spirit Day
8:00 AM -2:15PM, Joel to Learning About Learning Network Meeting (River Road)
9:00-11:30, Gietter’s Class to History Museum
1:45 PM- Science Club Meets in Gym
3:00 PM, Data Team Meeting 3-5 (Room 13)
7:00-8:00 PM, Any interested staff to Public Hearing on Long-Range Facilities Plan (Ed Center)
Jan. 24 (H)
8:00-10:00- Joel to NEOGOV(Edzapp replacement) Training
9:00-11:30, Powell’s Class to History Museum
1:15 PM, Winter Reading Celebration in Gym
4:00-6:00- Melissa, Christina, Terri, and Joel begin Title 1 Collaborative Lesson Study Project (District Office)
Jan. 25 (F)
Grading Day – No Students, Teachers working at Awbrey Park, Classified employees present as assigned.
8:00 AM, Office Meeting- Joel, Melinda, Vicki, Claire
11:30- Joel to meeting in Springfield with professional developer to plan PD for April.
12:45- Joel returns to building to work on paperwork and planning.
• Math Report Card Guidelines – Remember to look on the District Math Server for report card guidelines on how to grade student math skills (since the report card was written for the old standards and we are teaching to the new standards). This year’s report card is unchanged, but next year’s report card, on the new eSIS (Synergy), will reflect the CCSS math clusters. Be aware that you cannot access this website at home unless you’re running VPN.
•TAG Blanket Testing: TAG_Blanket_test_2013 -Here is the Letter that Kerri Sage wrote about our TAG screening that is coming up. We will be in communication with Kerri over the coming weeks about when this happens at Awbrey Park. The 2nd grade team and those that have referred students to me about testing will compile a list and verify with parents about testing soon.
• School Board Invites Public Input on Long-Range Facilities Plan, Wednesday at 7:00 PM – The School Board is seeking public input on their long range facilities plan. Input will take place at 7:00 PM this Wednesday at the Ed Center during the regular School Board Meeting. Here’s a link to the facilities proposal on the 4J website. I will be there to support other schools in the North Region and Roosevelt who badly need upgrades/ replacements to their buildings. I will also advocate for security upgrades at Awbrey Park.
• UO Track & Field Team – Reading to students – Coach Johnson and the UO Track and Field team are looking for opportunities to read to students over the next few months. We will be incorporating their enthusiasm for reading in our Read to Feed Program
• Doodle for Google Contest – Once a year, Google gives K-12 students across the U.S. the chance to display their own Google doodle on www.google.com through the Doodle 4 Google contest. The 2013 Doodle 4 Google contest launches with the theme “My Best Day Ever…” This contest gives students a blank canvas to exercise their creative imagination and doodle about their best day ever — be that in the past, present or future. Google is excited to see moments or thoughts that range from small and personal to broad and far reaching — maybe even out of this universe. Details can be found on their website for submission rules and also prizes. Every state will have one winner!
• How the Arts Intersect with the Common Core State Standards – When you hear CCSS, you don’t typically think of the arts. This short article from ASCD explores four direct connections between the arts and the Common Core State Standards, and consider how Next Generation Arts Standards focused on media arts can strengthen content-area learning.
• John Wooden, Teacher Extraordinaire – Here’s a good article on how John Wooden, the legendary UCLA basketball coach, used four key insights on teacher inquiry. He always insisted that everything he did with his highly successful teams from 1946 to 1975 he learned from teaching high-school English in the 1930s.
Have an excellent week!
Joel